Jessie Ware: 'My Uber rating is a sore subject'

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Jessie Ware, 33, is Dalston’s best-connected soul diva.

She’s mates with Adele, has Ed Sheeran round to hers for sausages, and is a certified Hollywood darling. She sold out Los Angeles’s legendary Troubadour last November — no mean feat for a Brit.

Her third LP, Glasshouse, may be “an album for my husband and my baby” but it contains something for everyone, including the soaring jazz ballad Sam, co-written by Sheeran. Her new podcast, Table Manners, has seen her and mum Lennie cook dinner for stars from Sam Smith to Daniel Kaluuya.

Best hangover cure?

Marmite on toast. Always.

What’s your Uber rating?

4.46. This is a sore subject. Even my bossy, back-seat driver mother is beating me.

Tell us a joke

Have you heard about this restaurant called Karma? There’s no menu, you get what you deserve.

Place you’d most like to visit?

Japan. Best food, clothes, coffee and wonderfully mad things to do like the robot café.

Strangest thing a fan’s sent you?

Either a Russell Crowe figurine from Gladiator (he came to a show before so I guess a fan thought I’d enjoy that) or a manuscript on “happiness”. It had something about raspberries dancing. I think the lady thought I could get her a book deal because she flung it on stage during a gig.

Best fact you’ve learnt this week?

The voice of Mickey Mouse, Wayne Allwine, and the voice of Minnie Mouse, “Russi” Taylor, actually got married in real life. However, he’d been married three times before that, so maybe that’s less romantic.

The best new boutique music festivals

1/12

A song that makes you dance like no one’s watching?

Controversy by Prince.

An Instagram account you can’t stop stalking?

Maya Jama. She looks like she has the most fun.

An alternative career you’ve considered?

My husband thinks I should be a therapist but I’d prefer to be a food critic.

Jessie Ware plays Latitude on July 14

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